Blythe Roberson is a comedian, a humor writer, and author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men. She has written for The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Kinfolk, Esquire, Vice Magazine, and for the NPR quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Blythe was raised between Illinois and Wisconsin and currently lives in Brooklyn. For more, visit: https://blytheroberson.com/

On Twitter and Instagram: @blythelikehappy

Lauren Smart is an arts writer and critic based in Los Angeles. Her writing appears in the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, American Theatre magazine, among others. She's on the journalism faculty at Loyola Marymount University. Previously, she has served on the faculty at Southern Methodist University and worked as the Arts & Culture Editor at the Dallas Observer. She founded and organized a feminist literary arts festival, Women Galore, in collaboration with the Dallas bookstore The Wild Detectives. She developed and managed a Dallas Public Library high school journalism workshop Storytellers Without Borders from 2017-2020.

Join us to celebrate Blythe Roberson’s much-anticipated second book American the Beautiful? on Friday, April 28 at 7PM.

Roberson will be in conversation with Lauren Smart, art critic for the Dallas Morning News.

America the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generation’s funniest writers. Borrowing her Midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. Along the way she meets new friends on their own personal quests, learns to cope with abstinence while missing the comforts of home, and comes to understand the limits—and possibilities—of going to nature to prove to yourself and your Instagram followers that you are, in fact, free.